Robert Roe talks to Antonio Peña, EPEEC project coordinator, about progress on a European programming framework for HPC

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It is likely to be a difficult few months for many businesses, not just those that are in scientific computing. Hopefully, Scientific Computing World can provide some distraction, or at least some news of scientific research that can help to pass the time. I hope that all of our readers are safe, and that you are able to continue your work or research as soon as possible. In this month’s HPC content, there are

several articles looking at the impact of new hardware and computing tools impact on energy efficiency and the sustainability of datacentres and HPC installations. This begins on page 4, with an interview with EPEEC project coordinator Antonio Peña about a framework for HPC tools that will deliver programmability for exascale systems.

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at cooling technology, starting on page 6. We look at the development of cooling technology and the impact that increasingly dense solutions for HPC and AI have on the development of cooling technology. On page 10 we revisit the NextGenIO project, which aims to develop memory systems to overcome HPC application bottlenecks. Laurence Horrocks-Barlow, technical

director of OCF, gives his predictions for HPC in 2020 on page 12 while Tate Cantrell, CTO of Verne Global, discusses the impact an environmental cost of AI on page 14. Cloud research is the focus on page 16 as we take a look at a recent webcast which highlights the development of cloud infrastructure at Oracle. Laboratory informatics coverage begins on page 18 as Sophia Ktori discusses an autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) and the convergence of clinical AI and wearable technology in two different examples of AI in clinical diagnostics. On page 22 Robert Roe takes a look at advances and trends in the use of FEA software and how it is being applied in real-world applications.